All of a sudden, when I click on email links I get an IE message saying
"could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not
properly installed"

I had done absolutely nothing to change the settings and it has been working
fine for years. I can still send and receive emails the normal way and I can
use links to
web sites but I cannot use links to email addresses. I checked and checked
again. All normal. I deleted all my accounts details and put them back
again. No change.

In Local Area Connection right clicking `status` brings up nothing. Clicking
on 'repair' ('renewing IP address') I get a message saying 'could not finish
repair because couldn't complete the renewal'. Very informative roundabout
situation!

Any ideas?

Maurice wrote:

No. Unless you tell us what email client you are using......

Sorry, my email client is Outlook Express.
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Maurice <maurice12@ntlworld.com>
High Wycombe. UK


"Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:51pqnpF1kk88lU2@mid.individual.net...

Well thanks for the lead. Although I didn't have a problem launching web
sites, only email links, that article did point me in the right direction
and sure enough OE was no longer my client. Why not I have no idea!

--
Maurice <maurice12@ntlworld.com>
High Wycombe. UK
"Evan Platt" <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
news:3kdfr21kn7eebe6eriip910djc4r4ajblc@4ax.com...

Maurice wrote:

Just got a Windows Update, I'd wager...

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Yes, as a matter of fact I did. How come computer technology is so advanced
we can send men to the moon on return trips and send satellites to
investigate Jupiter and beyond but when it comes to Windows adding a file or
two to a home computer without it screwing up its own Windows
settings................well!!

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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:EwPth.457555$Fi1.404177@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

Maurice wrote:

Imagine if those spacecraft computers ran Windows!

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@example.invalid>, the knotty-pated
lady-in-waiting, fussed:

They do. A lot of the work is performed on Windows-based laptops, and...

From: "Kadaitcha Man" <fuck-you.ya.c...@kiss-my-big-black-ass.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:00:22 +0545
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I'm watching NASA TV and the astronauts are preparing to use a modified boom
to inspect the reinforced carbon-carbon on the leading edges of the
shuttle's wing.

Astronaut: "Hey, Houston; this is Discovery. I'm not getting anything out of
this thing. We'll need to start over. I have to reboot the computer."


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alt.usenet.kooks - Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker:
September 2005 and April 2006

"K-Man's particular genius, however, lies not merely in his humour,
but his ability to make posters who had previously seemed reasonably
well-balanced turn into foaming, frothing, death threat-uttering
maniacs" - Snarky, Demon Lord of Confusion

"remember that th [sic] head toecutter has quarter million confirmed
kadaitcha man kills ok" - the land surfer

Fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist to Kadaitcha Man:
"Imagine if I were to suggest "I have a prehensile tail". You
would, naturally, ask for evidence."

Kadaitcha Man in reply to fuckwitted alt.atheism atheist:
"Not at all. I would unquestionably accept your admission to being
a monkey."

Thou guts-griping puddle of puke. Thou awful hog sucker.

Kadaitcha Man wrote:
"Copy Houston..over.... Houston - er do you read, over?"

"That's affirmative. We tried to upload the schematic of the malfunctioning
life support unit, but Vista is unable to find the file after using up
another 5 terabytes of system RAM to produce a blank screen for 26 seconds.
Do you have a pen on you, over?"

"Roger Houston; I'll just go back inside as soon as Vista decides to allow
me to open the door. - Er Houston; what's this message "User error. :
Replace user."? Can you send someone else up here? Over."

Meat Plow wrote:

I'll never fly again. <gulp>

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Dr Hal0nf1r£$ wrote:
lol

rofl

"Meat Plow" <meat@meatplow.local> wrote in message
newsan.2007.01.24.19.50.39.205000@nntp.sun-meatplow.local...
Similar problem with links within Outlook Express: After re-configuring
Firewall settings, I get a ding-ding sound when clicking on the links.
Instead of going through the extra changes, I hold the Ctr key while
clicking on the links and they work. Just my two cents.
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